The Polish Government Spokesperson, Piotr Muller, has denied that the one known as 'Polexit' be a possibility in a statement to the main public television channel, TVP1. Likewise, the Executive has accused opposition leader Donald Tusk of trying to "mislead" to the public about the possible exit of the country from the European Union (EU).
For his part, primer ministro Mateusz Morawiecki has also ensured that Poland does not want to leave the EU, a hypothesis that he has described as fake news in a message published on the social network Facebook. These clarifications come a day after the massive citizen demonstration to claim membership in the community bloc despite the controversial ruling.
Poland's Constitutional Court ruled last week that EU Treaties are incompatible with the Polish Magna Carta, which implies a primacy of national law over community law, contrary to the basic principles of the bloc.
Poland compares Donald Tusk to David Cameron
Muller has equated Tusk, former president of the European Council and the main face of the opposition to the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), with the former British Prime Minister David Cameron, which opened in the United Kingdom the political path of what was later the Brexit. Both Morawiecki and Puller consider that Tusk acts for political interests shaking up the debate last Sunday before protesters in Warsaw, when he declared that "Poland's place is in Europe."
Likewise, the Polish Government has downplayed the court ruling ensuring that rulings similar to those of the Constitutional have been adopted in other EU countries such as Spain, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Romania, a response that has added a new factor of tension to the already convulsive ones relations between Warsaw and Brussels.
Malgorzata Manowska, President of the Supreme Court (TS) Polish, has considered, for its part, that European legislation "cannot undermine constitutional principles" and that the organization of the Judiciary is a national competence.
The president of the Supreme Court defends the sentence
In an interview published this Monday in the Polish newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawda, Manowska stated that "Poland has transferred competences to the European Union (EU)", but "only in a very limited area, as clearly stated in Article 5 of the Accession Treaty", which specifies that the Union "It only has those powers that have been expressly transferred".
“The organization of the Judiciary has not been granted to the EU“
According to the president of the Supreme Court and despite the fact that she recently expressed herself in favor of complying with the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and modifying the judicial reform initiated by Warsaw, "The organization of the Judiciary has not been granted to the EU." "We are witnessing attempts to broaden the sphere of influence of the EU institutions at the expense of the Member States," he said.
In July, the CJEU ordered Poland to suspend the operation of the Disciplinary Chamber that the government created in 2017, considering that its composition and operation do not guarantee its independence, but Manowska refused to enforce that mandate because the Polish Constitutional Court had declared that order unconstitutional. In his opinion, the confrontation between the Polish and European judicial institutions "has gone too far", but "it was not the fault" of the TC.
Brussels warns of the possible collapse of Europe
The vice president of the European Commission responsible for Justice, Vera Jourova, has warned this Monday that Europe runs the risk of "collapsing" if there is no strong response by the EU. "If we do not uphold the principle that the same rules must be respected in the same way by everyone in Europe, the whole of Europe will begin to collapse, because the whole is as strong as its weakest part," he argued during the international conference. Forum 2000 held in Prague.
“We must react to this new chapter“
"This is why we must react to this new chapter that the Polish Constitutional Court has started", has insisted, without specifying what the possible answers are. The Community Executive announced last week that it will use "all the powers" conferred by the EU Treaties to defend the primacy of Community law over national laws and ensure that member states comply with the judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU that the Polish High Court questioned.
Nevertheless, Brussels has not yet advanced what means it is considering to act in the Polish case because its legal services are still examining the details of the controversial ruling of the Polish Court.
Thousands of people demonstrated against 'Polexit'
The decision of the Constitutional Court has caused the rejection of community institutions and citizens. This weekend thousands of people they manifested in more than 100 cities in Poland to defend the country's permanence in the EU despite the legal challenge posed by the ruling. The marches, called by the opposition, drew a landscape of citizens marching with lit candles, singing the Polish anthem and the Ode to Joy.
The most massive event took place in the afternoon in the Warsaw Castle Square, the historic heart of the Polish capital, following the call launched last Thursday by Donald Tusk. Similar scenes took place in all the main cities of the country, where concentrations between 15 and 18 hours and attended by deputies, senators and personalities from political life.
On Warsaw, Tusk addressed the crowd to make a Appeal in defense of "European Poland". "I am a Pole whom European countries elected 7 years ago as their boss, head of the European Council, out of respect for Poland, for our difficult and beautiful road to independence, to Europe," said the former prime minister.
On the sidelines of the Warsaw demonstration there were some violent incidents by nationalist groups who challenged the pro-European march. A few hours before the acts began, the police arrested 12 people, some of whom turned out to be members of the ultra-Italian group Forza Nuova.
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